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Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
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Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#32Okay, what is it with Swedes min-maxing their way to the top of pop music? How do they do it? Even Pewdiepie is like another case of chasing algorithmic success.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#33What I wonder is if Spotify's algorithm works in such a way that it ranks based on users fully listening and liking most songs, wouldn't he have actually been better off releasing all his music under one name, vs many? Because he is still releasing quite a bit of volume to achieve this
Not necessarily, it might be better to stratify by genre (like buying a separate domain for different product verticals), to make the algorithm think each one is super relevant and specific.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#34the publishing under psuedonyms parts sounds a lot like overemployment.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#35Swedish did with music what Japanese did with the cars.
Yep, most people never heard of Max Martin - another Swede - but probably listed to his songs so many times.
The Weeknd, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, Usher, Pink and many more have their hit songs made by this guy. It's amazing, he somehow trained his neural networks to produce global hit songs.
He is doing this straight from 1998 to this day starting with "...Baby One More Time" of Britney Spears. This year he already has 2 songs as #1 on the Billboard HOT 100.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#36Swedish did with music what Japanese did with the cars.
Yep, most people never heard of Max Martin - another Swede - but probably listed to his songs so many times. The Weeknd, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, Usher, Pink and many more have their hit songs made by this guy. It's amazing, he somehow trained his neural networks to produce global hit songs. He is doing this straight from 1998 to this day starting with "...Baby One More Time" of Britney Spears. This year he already has…
Am I just old to think names like Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys would be bigger names on that list?
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, most people never heard of Max Martin - another Swede - but probably listed to his songs so many times. The Weeknd, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, Usher, Pink and many more have their hit songs made by this guy. It's amazing, he somehow trained his neural networks to produce global hit songs. He is doing this straight from 1998 to this day starting with "...Baby One More Time" of Britney Spears. This year he already has…
Am I just old to think names like Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys would be bigger names on that list?
I just picked for style diversity and recentness but sure Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys are definitely some of the biggest names who have hits by Max Martin.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, most people never heard of Max Martin - another Swede - but probably listed to his songs so many times. The Weeknd, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, Usher, Pink and many more have their hit songs made by this guy. It's amazing, he somehow trained his neural networks to produce global hit songs. He is doing this straight from 1998 to this day starting with "...Baby One More Time" of Britney Spears. This year he already has…
Am I just old to think names like Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys would be bigger names on that list?
Old? We’d be rocking Jovi before Britney went to kindergarten…
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#39> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba. Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
Is that actually sketchy though?
- Each artist has different royalties, some are more expensive than others.
- appearantly people do listen to ”cheaper” artists, in right circumstances
- consumers prefer that cost of subscription would be lower
- I assume scenario in the article saves money for spotify, and in turn allows to remain profitable without increasing subscription prices.
Seems it aligns well with interest of consumers in the long run.
Re: Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up That’s art.
Maybe if it's intentional. Making a statement by hitting the algo buttons. And I'm not saying he's not. But do we call it art if it's fraud? Isn't a lot of HN readers against AI generated spam and SEO spun content? I don't call those art, and I'm not sure yet what to call thos composer.
Does art need to “make a statement”?
I think:
- It is subjective.
- if you enjoy it, then it is art.
Doing music for profit is not a new concept, just look at pop music (and especially “boy bands”)
But if end result sounds good to a lot of people, how is that not an art?